On Fri, Aug 03, 2018 at 18:08:24 +0300, Valery Ushakov wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 03, 2018 at 15:54:24 +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Aug 03, 2018 at 08:28:55PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
> > > Where is the signed arithmetic that was supposedly a probem?
> > 
> > Ah, stupid C integer promotion rules.  uint16_t is promoted to int
> > here, not unsigned int or size_t.
> 
> Hmm, i don't think that's true.

Nah, you are right.  "THEN" is the important word here.

But as it transpired in another branch of this thread the problem was
something entirely different...

>   6.3.1.8  Usual arithmetic conversions
> 
>   ...
>             Otherwise, the integer promotions are performed on both
>             operands.   Then the following rules are applied to the
>             promoted operands:

-uwe

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